Context (C3)

• What companies produced Pan?

  Co-produced by Tequila Gang and EStudios Picasso
• Who was the producer?

  Del-Toro co-produced
• What was the production budget?

  15 million
• Who did the sound design?

  Herandez
• Who was the cinematographer?

  Navarro
• What genre in Pan's Labyrinth?

  Dark fantasy
• Where/when is it set?

  Northern Spain, 1944
• Del Toro on his difficulty securing funding for the film:

  ‘The toughest shoot I've ever had’
• Quote from Kermode on Pan's Labyrinth:

  "Mix of fact and fantasy, poetry and politics, pain and pleasure"
• What was going on politically at the time?

  Right-wing nationalists and left-wing republican parties competed for power 
• Who were the nationalists?

  Monarchists, landowners, Catholic Church, army
• Who were the republicans?

  Workers, trade unions, socialists, peasants
• When did the Spanish civil war end and who won it?

  Ended 1939, won by Franco's militaristic regime
• What was Franco's aim?

  To ‘purify’ Spain by mass executing left-wing republicans and anyone who refused his rule (majority of war causalities were civilians)
• What were guerilla groups such as the Maquis?

  Groups of rebels who refused to surrender
• Franco enforced a strict conservative ideology on Spain until he died 1975
• What was the pact of silence?


  Both left and right sides agreed to remain off political agenda to keep peace after Franco died
• The Spanish cicil war's effect on cinema:

  -Following Franco’s death was an age of personal and political freedoms revitalising Spanish cinema 

  -Despite the pact of silence, the subject of the conflict was revisited in cinema 

  -Spanish films about the war are different to those outside the country --> reflective, searching, metaphorical representations